Professor Richard Holmes, a British military historian featured in the NOVA film "Medieval Siege," talks here about everyday life in a medieval English castle, giving a sense of how lords and ...

Archaeologists from the University of Sheffield are working on a major project to recover and promote Sheffield Castle, a key element of the city’s forgotten medieval heritage. Findings from the ...

NOVA: What about the role of women inside the castle? What were they doing day-to-day? Holmes: Well, by and large, and this is a very broad generality, women had a subservient role in medieval ...